I'm a muppet and grabed the collectors edition and will have access to the backer build in just under 17 hours. IT's going to be only tactical stuff from what I glanced at but that is really fine for me. Nothing can get spoiled story etc that way for now

Aye it's really nice. Just did the already shown map and had 3 of my guys killed and the fourth stuck down in the middle of the map unable to heal or move on after killing the bigger mob from bleed effects

Went to both of Julian Gollop's developer sessions at EGX last year and thought this looked rather interesting. I can see why it's still a long way off though, the tactics battle system might have been fairly far along but they'd barely made a start on the overworld part of the game. He is very keen on the simulation aspects of his games and talked a fair bit about how there will be various factions all working completely independently of you, a little like Civilization, but it was incredibly basic placeholder stuff that he was showing off at the time.